The complete online text of Taboo by James Branch Cabell.

The American essayist and writer of romantic fiction James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) played an important part in the battle against sexual taboos in American literature during the 1920s. James Branch Cabell was born in Richmond, Va., into an aristocratic...

Virginia-born James Branch Cabell , along with fellow Richmonder Ellen Glasgow, was one of the first voices of what would later become a rising chorus of modern southern writers. He is recognized today as a pioneering novelist and short-story writer of t...

Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, James Branch Cabell lived a life more or less typical of a Southern gentleman of modest means and impeccable pedigree. He attended William and Mary College (1894-1898) where his precocious brilliance was generally r...

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